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|    Gert.Andersen!2.230.150.0@filegate. to J.O. Aho    |
|    Re: Gentoo latest (kernel-2.6.38-gentoo-    |
|    13 Jul 11 17:42:38    |
      Hello J.O.!              Thu Jun 30 2011, J.O. Aho wrote to Gert.Andersen!2.230.150.150@filegat:               JA>On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Gert.Andersen!2.230.150.150@filegate.net wrote:                      JA>Fist of all I have to say, I don't understand what you ment with your        JA>post.              It was that time and now is the things been fixed to working again.               >> But why shall gentoo with the last kernel 2.6.38-r6 be so difficult and        >> buggy in its install.        >> If you have a older kernel in work and just opdate kernel to 2.6.28-r6        >> is there        >> no problem in it. But do a install from livecd id it very hard to do.               JA>genkernel has a big history of not working and I haven't used it more        JA>than once or twice before I decided to make all manually instead. I        JA>don't use initramfs, instead I compile all the driver into the kernel        JA>which I need during boot up (usually not much more than drivers for        JA>disk, nic only if I need to use tftp/nfs for root file system).               JA>For boot loader there are options other than grub/grub2, which has been        JA>working fine for a lot of people, for example lilo.              Brug is more friendly in correction if it not working, where lilo is more hard       to make corrected as I know.                      Take care,        Gert               - Get the best with linux -              --- Msged/LNX 6.2.0 (Linux/2.6.33-gentoo-r2 (x86_64))        * Origin: KofoBBS at ftp://ftp.kofobbs.dk (2:230/150)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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